Friday Full-Length: Sólstafir, Ótta
Sólstafir, Ótta (2014) Please note: For visual continuity with other Friday Full-Length posts, I’m using the YouTube post of the record, but the band also has it up on Bandcamp here, where it is...
View ArticleSólstafir Launch US Tour with Pallbearer and Mortals
If you haven’t heard it yet, Sólstafir‘s 2014 outing, Ótta, is fricking brilliant. I won’t pretend to be Johnny Groundfloor with the Icelandic band, for whom this is album number five, but in terms of...
View ArticleThe Obelisk Presents: The Top 30 of 2014
Please note: These are not the results of the Readers Poll, which is ongoing. If you haven’t added your list yet, please do. This was a hard list to put together. The top three have been set in my...
View ArticleBuried Treasure: Sólstafir, Ótta
FEB. 26: It is fucking snowing again. This morning, I came downstairs and opened the blinds and no light came in, just that oozing gray that has passed for daytime for most of the last several months...
View ArticleSólstafir Play Two Nights in Tokyo; Euro Tour Next Month
Globetrotting Icelanders Sólstafir are playing Japan this week in support of their 2014 Season of Mist release, Ótta (review here), which as we come to the end of summer 2015 has been on my mind with...
View ArticleSólstafir Post Video for “Miðaftann”
Must be getting on winter as thoughts return to Iceland’s Sólstafir and their 2014 Ótta (review here). I expect that will be the case for years to come and regardless of whatever the band does next,...
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